M 4.8 in Indonesia on 14 Dec 2021 21:29 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1301655
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 48.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.7418 , 114.1485
Event Date: 14 Dec 2021 21:29 UTC
15 Dec 2021 05:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2021 21:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gc9i Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),